10,000 Maniacs’ “The Wishing Chair” L.P. will celebrate its 30th anniversary this year
(original release date – September 23, 1985). Since it seems apparent that the Maniacs
are not being given the remaster / bonus tracks / box set treatment that they so richly
deserve, I’ve decided to upload all of my 70+ live and rare 10,000 Maniacs recordings
during the coming weeks. Although many of these recordings will be re-seeds of previous
Dime torrents, a substantial number have never appeared on the Dime (and many others
haven’t been shared since the Dime’s previous incarnation as “easytree.org” circa 2005).

This is an excellent soundboard recording from the pre-“Wishing Chair” era, featuring
multiple songs that were short-lived in the band’s live set and that ultimately remain
unreleased.

Disc 1, track #6, and Disc 2, track #15, are referred to as “Toy Helmet”
and “Primitive Mentality” respectively. Both are early versions of future b-side /
bonus track “The Colonial Wing”. I can’t say exactly why they are labeled under different
titles, but both “Toy Helmet” and “Primitive Mentality” are referenced often enough in
other Maniacs setlists that I’m inclined to believe that both titles were used by the band
at one point or another.

Disc 2, song #7, is a song commonly referred to as “John Sings Ska”, but I have no idea
of whether that’s an unofficial fan-created title or not. The same song also appears on
the Buffalo 1984 recording (to be uploaded separately), using that same title.

has some off claps on d1t2; d1t8 has over 12 minutes of silence at the end; there are
cuts/drops between some songs; rustling noise d3t10 3:45

CD1
1 Gotta Serve Somebody
2 I Believe In You
3 Like A Rolling Stone
4 The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
5 Man Gave Names To All The Animals
6 Maggie’s Farm
7 Simple Twist Of Fate
8 Girl From The North Country

CD2
1 Ballad Of A Thin Man
2 Heart Of Mine
3 All Along The Watchtower
4 I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight
5 Forever Young
6 Gamblin’ Man
7 The Times They Are A-Changin’
8 A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
9 Watered-Down Love

CD3
1 Shot Of Love
2 Just Like A Woman
3 Solid Rock
4 Masters Of War
5 When You Gonna Wake Up
6 In The Garden
7 Blowin’ In The Wind
8 It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (acoustic)
9 It Ain’t Me, Babe (acoustic)
10 Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Please retain this info file and its LB number as a marker for this lossless set
and if you spread it please list it in the description to avoid others getting duplicates

My Back Pages
She’s Love Crazy
Mr. Tambourine Man
Shelter From The Storm
Love Minus Zero/No Limit
Tangled Up In Blue
Ballad Of A Thin Man
Maggie’s Farm
I Don’t Believe You
Like A Rolling Stone
I Shall Be Released
Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power) – Missing, track labeled as Senor is actually Changing of the Guards

Set II

The Times They Are A-Changin’
Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35
It Ain’t Me Babe
Am I Your Stepchild?
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
Blowin’ In The Wind
Girl From The North Country
We Better Talk This Over
Masters Of War
Just Like A Woman
All Along The Watchtower
To Ramona
It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Forever Young
E: Changing Of The Guards

Disc one
I Am The Man, Thomas
My Back Pages (
It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)
Searching For A Soldier’s Grave
Lonesome Day Blues
Lay, Lady, Lay
Floater
High Water (For Charley Patton)
It Ain’t Me, Babe
Masters Of War
Tangled Up In Blue

Disc two
Summer Days
Sugar Baby
Drifter’s Escape
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
1st encore:
Things Have Changed
Like A Rolling Stone
Forever Young
Honest With Me
Blowin’ In The Wind
2nd encore:
All Along The Watchtower

This is about as good as it gets, audio wise, as is evident by the many releases of this show. All ages catch Bob (TMR)—All ages Catch Dylan (Mainstream) –He is the Man (Rattlesnake) and this one here from the Wolf. They are all soundboard except for TMR. The soundboard for this show is simply flawless. Not only is the sound exquisite, but Bob and the band are brilliant. Dylan bends and drags his words as only he can do. The band is tight and keeps up beautifully with Bobís driving vocals. This recording prooves just what a force that Dylan and his band are. All of the labels were smart to leave off bonus tracks, for anything from 2002 would pale horribly on the same disc as this show.
The artwork, however, is a tad flimsy (which is uncharacteristic of this Japanese label). The photos are accurate and very appealing, but the front cover is only a double sided glossy square and the back inside liner is blank. The cds are silk screened to match the front cover. The lack of packaging is hardly a deterrent from obtaining this title, however, if youíre looking for a more aesthetically pleasing package… then the Rattlesnake release would be the way to go.

This tape came from a member of the Grateful Dead’s crew. This is not from the scanner in the parking lot. It was taped by the crewmember himself. I cannot reveal his name because I don’t want to get him in any shit. I am not exactly sure how it was taped inside the venue. He told to me the story verbally about 4 years ago, and I cannot remember exactly what he said. But one thing I remember for sure, it came from him inside, not from the parking lot scanner.

I met this guy when I was taping a GD member’s ?post-dead? band in 1998. They happened to be playing at a venue where I know the soundman. I was taping off the board that night. I got into a conversation with one of the band?s crew. (this tape?s source) In talking I found out he was a former crewmember for the GD.

On this particular night, the GD member?s band did not bring their own DAT deck. So this guy wanted a DAT clone of what I taped. We exchanged info but I did not get around to making his copy for a long while. During that time, he called me a couple of times and told me about this 95 monitor feed tape he had. We agreed and he sent me this tape in exchange for the DAT. He made my copy from his cassette master.

I had the tape in late 1999 and made a copy for my roommate at the time. We?ve since parted ways. Unfortunately, in the 2001 move I lost my copy. I was at my former roommates house the other night and the topic of this tape came up. He dug out his copy.

The copy of the 95 UBC Philly sound check contained on side B a monitor feed from the Omni in Atlanta from 3/29/95. This is the third live performance of Unbroken Chain. The monitor feed captures the band talking to each other in the ear monitors. They joke around with the names of the songs at the begining – very funny!

Seeded to etree by Marc Pujol
June 14, 2003

Big thanks to my friend Austin Mulhern for holding onto the tape which became the source for this transfer